v2.1

cloudflare/pingorav2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

A major update introducing Upstage and Groq as new providers, AssemblyAI for audio files, and improvements to Markdown chunking and Weaviate client integration.

Key Highlights

Added Upstage (Reader, Embedder, Generator)
Added Groq support
Added AssemblyAI Reader for audio files
Improved Markdown Chunking
Added new deployment type: Custom

Breaking Changes

Changed Collection names to prevent conflicts with older versions
Changed Python version range below 3.13

New Features

Upstage integration
Groq integration
AssemblyAI audio support
Language detection
Custom deployment type
Markdown improvements
Docker Hub integration

Full Release Notes

## [2.1.0] Fixing Bugs and Adding Friends <3

## Added

- Added Upstage: Reader, Embedder, Generator (https://www.upstage.ai/)
- Added new deployment type: Custom
- Added new port configuration (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/308)
- Added Groq (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/278)
- AssemblyAI Reader for audio files (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/283)
- Language Detection for languages like chinese, english, french, german and dutch (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/302)
- Improve Markdown Chunking (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/323)
- Upgrade to latest Weaviate Client
- Added Ollama to Docker Compose
- Added Verba to Docker Hub
- Added default deployment to skip login screen (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/305)

## Fixed

- Catch Exception when trying to access the OpenAI API Embedding endpoint to retrieve model names
- Fixed reading empty string as environment variables (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/300)
- Fixed default Unstructed URL (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/295)
- Changed Collection names to prevent conflicts with other older Verba version generated collections
- Ensure Ollama URL is parsed correctly (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/327)
- Fixing typos (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/329)
- System Message is now a textarea in the frontend (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/334)
- Race Condition when multiple requests try to create same client (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/335)
- Fix wrong data types when querying additional chunks
- Remove legacy code (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/284)
- Change Python version range below 3.13
- Firecrawl Reader missing metadata (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/280)